In The Golden Days

Excerpt: "School-boy, indeed! As little of a boy as ever I saw. You've kept him too close, Randolph, and that's a fact! Mewed him up as though he were a convent maid." "He had good schooling at Westminster," returned the other, "and if Dr. Busby couldn't birch him into an ordinary fellow, how can I help it? I'm sure he has had enough thrashings from me alone to harden him."